The hard work starts now, we simply weren't anywhere near as good as the 'hype' this afternoon and have many issues to address.

The defence looked like they had just met for the first time, far too many errors (I appreciate it was cold and this can lead to knock-ons but some of the passing was suicidal), little impact from the forwards and the same old lack of ideas in attack.

One problem we can't easily fix is that we seem to be short of one big impact forward, with Manu and Moa gone, we only have O'Meley as a big 'old fashioned' impact player and in a game in weather like today's this is going to harm us IMO. I'm sure our 'agile' forwards will be good in the summer weather, but how many games do we get each year in warm weather?!

Scott Prince would have been massive for us....Oh for him to have been leading us around the park today!

I agree that him or Chase were the missing piece of the jigsaw, but we have to make the best of the players we have. And to be fair to the halves today, the forwards weren't getting us in a good position and even the best halves can't play well behind a beaten pack.

We had a bad first 40 minutes. Rovers aren't as bad as some on here would like to think.

I'd agree with that, also Rovers are in effect a week ahead of us in their pre-season, as they went to their training camp before Xmas and have had 1 more friendly.

I thought our defence in the first wasn't aggressive enough. When we decided to get in their faces, we forced an error and scored our first try. Seemed to me that, though Gentle has to try out different players, it didn't do us any favours and we seemed to have little shape. I expect us to look a lot better with a consistent team playing every week.

We came out in the second a lot better, almost scoring from the first set. We look as though we have the ability now to turn it on and spread it wide, just didn't work today. Their offloading game was a lot better, but we dealt with it a little better in the second.

At times we offloaded it too much, when in freezing conditions the good old tactics of '5 drives & a kick' would have been better!

Chopping and changing the team can't really be avoided in friendlies, everyone needs a run-out to get fit, and everyone deserves a chance to challenge for a first team spot.

I do think today's performance (or lack of!) will mean a few more senior players get a run out at York than we'd have expected.

the problem in attack is that we try to score off every play and try hollywood offloads that go straight to the opposition. they need to learn to build pressure through the set of tackles and the force another set if necessary

I'm just hoping Holdsworth will improve, a lot! I was never his biggest fan at Salford and he's done nothing in these 2 friendlies.

agree, we also threw a lot of stupid passes out near our own line. The kind of passes you do when your 2 points down in a must-win game with 5mins to go!

Agree with that , They looked a yard faster too.

Are you for real? It's a friendly FFS!. It's one game and it ain't even a competitive fixture. We well still finish above them and the best SL team in Hull. Keep the faith! Amazes me what some people think about the club. You can't judge the club on one game like this and state we have problems and stuff need addressing. Some people need to get a grip and calm down!